Controllerless Networks

Instant AP vs Kindle

‎01-31-201202:32 AM

Hi All,

I came across an issue yesterday where my Kindle Keyboard Wifi was unable to connect to a customers wireless network. I know my Kindle works wirelessly as I've had it working previously at home and I tested it after the issue at the customers site.

The APs in question were IAP105 on version 5.0.3.0? (iirc) I attempted to connect my kindle to a WPA2 PSK SSID this failed. I next tried WPA PSK and this failed too. Finally I tried an open SSID but this failed too!

I upgrade the firmware on the IAPs to the latest version at tried to connect again to no avail.

This is what occurs: The kindle associates with the SSID and from the IAP I can see that it's assigned an IP address. But after a few seconds it Kindle reports that it failed to connect.

Has anyone else seen issues like this before?

I'm thinking (hoping) it might be something to do with the customer having a proxy server and the Kindle attempting to "call home" when it connect to the wireless rather than it being an incompatibility between the devices.